The Dark Art of Business for Engineers

Last month, I built a proof of concept application that streamed audio from a web browser and provided real-time transcriptions and intent recognition to control the web application hands-free. I completed it in two days using state-of-the-art voice and language models. Twelve years ago, I worked on Amazon Alexa during its early development. The project required two hundred people and multiple years to build the systems that would achieve similar outcomes. Today, a single developer can create...